Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strikes are comparatively rare in Britain these days. Most British workers have been willing enough to heed their government's pleas, swallow their grievances and stay on the job. But there are some things a self-respecting Briton can't swallow. That was the way of it with 26-year-old Alf Cole, driver's mate on a lorry owned by Wells and Winch, the big brewers of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire...
...education. At present, most plain citizens are almost superstitiously fearful of everything connected with the exploding atom. Their jitters keep them from reasoning calmly. When atomic knowledge has spread more widely, AEC believes, people will get their bearings and learn to live with the atom, which is here to stay...
...have construction permits in 51 cities; 93 applications are being investigated, and 64 more are pending. At the moment, NBC, with a network of five stations and 26 more scheduled to open by year's end, topped the heap. But it was hard put to it to stay there...
...this year, last season's end coach Harry Jacutiski is the only side left from Harlow's football rapine who has not revealed any of his coaching plane for 1948. Unconfirmed report, however, imply that he may stay here...
...Their only object is to cause disruption in order to stay in the good graces of the Arab High Command, which includes the ex-Mufti and other Nazi war-criminals," he concluded...